cakravarttiñ

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “Cakravartin, king of the world, universal king” Carling et al. 2009: “Cakravartin”; king of the world
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	cakravārtti
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. cakravartin-, GD cakravarti-?
Lexeme variants:	cakravarttiñ; cakravartiñ
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	cakravarti	cakravarttiñ
voc
acc	cakravarti
gen	cakkravarttis
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• cakravartti “Cakravartin, king of the world, universal king” “Cakravartin” king of the world m

  	sg	pl
  nom	cakravarti	cakravarttiñ
  acc	cakravarti
  gen	cakkravarttis

  • cakravarti-lāñci “belonging to a Cakravartin-king”

    	pl.f
    nom	cakravarti-lāñcināñ

  • cakravarti-wäl “cakravarti-king” m

    	sg	pl
    nom	cakravartti-wäl	cakravarttiñ-lāñś
    acc	cakravarttis-lānt
    inst	cakravarttis-lāntyo

    • cakravarti-lāntune “Cakravartin-kingship” n

      	sg
      acc	cakravarti-lāntune

  • cakravartune “Cakravartin-status, dominion of the world” n

    	sg
    nom	cakravartuney
    acc	cakravartuney
    all	cakravartuneyac

  • cakravartṣi “Cakravartin, king of the world, universal king” “Cakravartin” king of the world

    	sg.m
    acc	cakkravartṣi

Occurrences

cakravartiñ

1

A 22 b3

4σ ki ; lāṃś

cakravartiñ

: sāmudrä lyäm ;

cakravarttiñ

1	A 128 and 130 b2	okāk ṣi /// (ño)b2mā	ca(kra)varttiñ	lāś (tāka)r puk cem
2	A 350 b5	/// b5 /// mp·ñ	cakravarttiñ	lāñś śäk krant ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.